Cuff-button.



B. R. OREGELIUS.

CUFF BUTTON.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 27,1906.

ATTORNEY.

PATENTED APR. 16, 1907.

nnirnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMIL R. CRECELIUS, OFPROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, .ASSIGNOR TO PARKS BROTHERS AND ROGERS, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, COPART- NERS.

CUFF-BUTTON.

Patented April is, 1907.

Application filed November 27,1906. Serial No. 345,358.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMIL R. CRnonLIUs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cuff-Buttons, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to the shoes or heads of buttons of all kinds, but more particularly to the heads of cuff-buttons.

The essential. purposes of my invention are, first, to unite the two plates constituting the head in such a manner as to make the joint less conspicuous than is attained by the common method of rolling over the margin of the outer plate upon the inner plate, whereby a raw edge is exposed; second, to produce a strong back plate, and, third, to improve the manner of uniting the post and head.

Other purposes are cheapness, capacity for ornamentation, and strength.

To all the above ends my invention con sists in the peculiar construction of the front and back plates of the head and the post or bar, hereinafter set forth, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a side elevation of a cuff-button in which my invention is embodied; Fig. 2, a bottom elevation of the same; Fig. 3, a section of the same on line 00 0c of Fig. 2 Fig. 4,

' a plan view of the back plate; Fig. 5, a section of the same on line y y of 4, and Figs. 6 and 7 modified forms of back plates.

Like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the views.

In the drawings, A is the bean, and B the bar or post of a cuff-button in connection with which my invention is herein described. The bar B is provided with an annular shoulder 6 adjacent its base. The head of the button is indicated in a general manner by C and comprises two pieces, the front plate D and the back plate E. The back plate has a marginal flange whose base e is vertical and whose body 6 is outwardly tapering. The back plate is also provided at its center with an integral tubular wall 6 to receive the end of the bar B. The metal of the plate E is swaged against the shoulder b of the bar, and a resulting shoulder e is formed at the base of the tubular wall in which the shoulder is seated. The end of the tubular wall preferably extends slightly beyond or is of greater length than the flange e. The back plate is provided, further, with radially-disposed reinforcing-ribs e. The metal F between the ribs may be plain, as shown in Fig. 4, or ornamented, as shown at F, Fig. '6, or may be entirely wanting, as shown in Fig. 7, wherein the radial arms or ribs 6 alone constitute the back-plate body in conjunction with the flange, the back plate thus being made skeleton.

The front plate D is provided with an inturned tapering flange d, which is swaged over the flange-body e of the plate E and whose extremity or edge abuts against the vertical base 6 of the flange. The end of the tubular wall or projection e preferably rests against the front plate D. It should be noted that in Fig. 3 the head C is made disproportionally thick to more clearly display the salient features of the invention.

What I claim is 1. In a cuff-button, the combination with the bean and bar, of a back plate fixed to the bar and having an outwardly-tapering flange, a front plate having an inturned tapering flange engaging the flange of the back plate, the back plate being formed with a tubular projection with annular shoulder, and the said bar with an annular shoulderreceived therein.

2. In a cuff-button, the combination with the bean and bar, of a back plate fixed to the bar and formed with an outwardly-tapering flange provided with a base and a tubular projection, said base and-projection having a common axis, radially-disposed reinforcingribs upon the back plate, a front plate engaging said tubular projection and having an inturned tapering flange frictionally engaging the tapering flange of the back plate and a portion abutting against said base.

3. In a cuff-button, the combination with the bean and a bar provided with an annular shoulder, of a back plate having a tubular projection receiving said bar and provided at its base with a shoulder in which the shoulder of the bar is seated and frictionally held, and a front plate frictionally held to said back plate and bearing against said tubular projection.

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4. In a cuff-button, a back plate having a In testimony whereof I have afliXed my marginal flange, 2, front plate having insignature in presence of two Witnesses.

turned tapering fian e frietionally engaged over the flange of th: back plate, said back EMIL CRECELIUS' 5 plate having radial ribs, and a bar held at one Witnesses:

end at the central point of union of said ribs HoRA'rlo E. BELLoWs, and a bean 0n the outer end of said bar. WALTER E. GOODWIN. 

